Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

It did set about an incredible scramble yesterday to try to go back and re-evaluate those 20 students.